By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is the kind of film that sneaks up on you. What begins as a family reckoning—two estranged sisters, Nora and Agnes (Renate Reinsve and Elle Fanning), forced back into orbit around their charismatic, unreliable filmmaker father, Gustav (stellan skarsgård), after their mother’s death—quietly becomes something larger:
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Tosin Morohunfola didn’t expect Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy to feel so personal. “When I read the script,” he says, “I thought it was a holiday romance. But Tyler doesn’t do surface. This is about someone who’s been overlooked—in her career, in love—and has to face herself before she can find anything real.” In the film,
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By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine Exclusive The snow was falling in fat, lazy flakes outside the ski lodge when Shannon Thornton stepped onto her balcony for the first time. She had a room with a balcony. In Colorado. At a resort that looked like someone had shaken a snow globe and forgotten to stop. Below
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Producer John Shepherd on SARAH’S OIL: A Timely Tale of Faith, Family, and the American Dream
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In a candid conversation with AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen, veteran producer John Shepherd—whose 30-plus-year career spans independent filmmaking, studio executive roles, and award-winning features—unpacks the heart behind Sarah’s Oil, the new biographical drama hitting theaters November 7. Shepherd, an NAACP Image Award winner and former Senior VP of Original Content at DreamWorks/Imagine’s POP.com, has produced
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By Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine November 2, 2025 In Kathryn Bigelow's pulse-pounding 2025 Netflix thriller A House of Dynamite, the clock ticks down during an 18-minute crisis: a single, unattributed missile hurtles toward the United States, forcing the nation's leaders into a frenzy of split-second decisions that could ignite global catastrophe. Directed by the
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By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine | November 2, 2025 In Kathryn Bigelow's pulse-racing apocalyptic thriller A House of Dynamite, the world hangs by a thread as a single, unattributed nuclear missile hurtles toward Chicago, forcing the U.S. government into a frantic race against time to identify the culprit and decide on a response. Premiering to
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Interview by Paul Salfen By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine The neon of Macau never sleeps, and neither, it seems, does Edward Bergen. Fresh off a blockbuster that left audiences gasping, the director could have coasted into safer waters. Instead, he dove head-first into Ballad of a Small Player, a taut, glittering fever-dream about a man
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By Paul Salfen AMFM Magazine High above the cobblestone streets of Grubbers Nubbin sits a castle laboratory where the maddest of mad professors stitches together creatures that are… almost alive. And then forgets about them. Who keeps the chaos in check? Enter Stitch Head, the professor’s very first creation—a pint-sized, patchwork hero who’s been running
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